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Update your address across accounts
Update your address across accounts. List the accounts that hold your old address, approve which ones get changed, and keep a confirmation for each.
What you can get
Reaches your accounts Creates or changes things in accounts you connect, with your approval.
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It does
- Searches your email for accounts that may hold your old address
- Logs in to and updates only the accounts you approve
- Records each confirmation and leaves the rest on the list for you
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It stops and asks
- Before any login: the account list approved by you.
- During: sensitive accounts held back for you to change yourself.
- After: confirmations saved and the list checked against post still arriving at the old address.
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You approve
- Your approval of the account list before any login
- No authority to change payment details, phone numbers or anything other than the address
Derived from this task's own brief and steps, not from the source.
- Give both addressesStops for your approval
Old and new, formatted as you want them, with the moving date.
- List the accounts
Found from email, plus the ones you add.
- Approve and changeStops for your approval
Only approved accounts, address only.
- Save and recheckStops for your approval
Confirmations kept, missed accounts added from the post.
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Works when
- You are moving and dread the long tail of small accounts.
- Most of your accounts send email, so a search will surface them.
- You are willing to approve logins account by account.
Does not work when
- The accounts that matter most need official forms or in-person proof.
- You do not want an agent logging in to financial or government accounts.
- You need mail forwarding set up, which is a separate service with its own sign-up.
Update your address across accounts: change log
| Account | Found from | Status |
|---|---|---|
| [Account name] | [Email or your note] | [Changed / yours / needs form] |
| [Confirmation] | [Email or screenshot] | [Saved] |
| [Missed account] | [Post still at the old place] | [Added to the list] |
The source case
On X, @aliceisplaying posts what they call an incomplete list, drawn from their chat logs, of things Instinct helped them with over five days. One line says it changed their address across a whole pile of accounts. That is all the evidence there is: the post does not say which accounts, how many, how they were found, whether it logged in to each, or whether any change needed a follow-up. Checked on 2026-09-24. This is an individual report, not evidence that any particular account can be updated this way.
A public report by someone outside this library. Not independently reproduced here.
From the source
Source excerpt
had astra dig thru the chatlogs & here's an incomplete list of things instinct helped me with in the last 5 days: ... - changed my address across a whole pile of accounts
Quoted from the original posts. Not written by this guide, and not a result produced here.
Suggested prompt
Bring Old and new address, formatted as you want it, Moving date, Your notes on accounts email will not show. Acts Searches your email for accounts that may hold your old address. Logs in to and updates only the accounts you approve. Records each confirmation and leaves the rest on the list for you. Source community report, checked 2026-09-24.
Written by this guide as a starting point, not quoted from the source. Your edits stay in this browser.
Other ways to ask
Editorial rewrites of the brief above, for a different emphasis. Copy them separately.
What you need
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You supply
- Old and new address, formatted as you want it
- Moving date
- Your notes on accounts email will not show
Connected
- Logins for the accounts you approve
How to try it
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- Give the old and new address exactly as they should appear, and the date the new one takes effect.
- Ask for a list first: search email for receipts, statements and account notices that suggest where the old address is stored.
- Sort the list into accounts to update online, accounts you will handle yourself, and accounts that need a form, a call or proof of address.
- Approve each change, or each small group, before any account is logged into.
- Keep the confirmation email or screenshot for each one, and recheck the list after a few weeks of post at the new address.
Make the list before touching anything
The report behind this page is one line: @aliceisplaying says Instinct changed their address across a whole pile of accounts. It does not say how the pile was found, and that is the part worth planning. Your email is the best index you have, because retailers, utilities, insurers, subscriptions and delivery services all send receipts or notices that show an account exists. Ask for a list first, with the email that points to each account, and read it before any login happens. Add what email cannot show: accounts that write to an old inbox, services that only send paper, and anything held jointly with someone else. A list you have checked is also what tells you, a month later, which accounts are genuinely done.
Decide which accounts get touched
Changing an address inside an account means signing in, and some accounts deserve more care than others. Shopping and delivery accounts are low stakes. Banks, insurers, tax and government records often have their own process, may ask for proof of the new address, and can treat an unexpected login as a security event. Sort the list into three groups: changes you approve for the agent, changes you will make yourself, and changes that need a form or a call. Approve logins account by account or in small groups, and keep the rule simple: the address changes and nothing else does. Payment methods, phone numbers and marketing preferences stay as they are unless you ask separately.
Keep proof and watch the post
For every change, keep the confirmation email or a screenshot of the updated details. Online forms sometimes rewrite an address into a standard format, and it is worth checking the rewritten version still points at the right door. Some organisations hold more than one address, such as billing and shipping, and updating one leaves the other behind. The real test comes over the following weeks: whatever still arrives at the old place, whether forwarded to you or mentioned by the new occupants, shows which accounts were missed. Add them to the list and work through them the same way. The source post reports none of this detail, so treat it as a sign the job can be shared, not a promise it will be complete.
Open Instinct to try it. That is the product's own site; this guide is not part of it.
Limits and confirmation points
- One line in one post. It does not name the accounts, the number changed or anything that went wrong.
- Some organisations need a change of address by form, by phone or with proof of residence, and official records have their own rules. An online account setting is not always the record that matters.
- Changing an address inside an account means logging in to it. Decide which accounts you are willing to have an agent log in to, and which you will do yourself.
- An email search finds accounts that send you mail. Accounts that rarely email you, or that write to an old inbox, can be missed.
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- Before any login: the account list approved by you.
- During: sensitive accounts held back for you to change yourself.
- After: confirmations saved and the list checked against post still arriving at the old address.
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- An account will not accept the new address online
- Mark it for a form, a call or proof of address, and leave it for you. Do not keep retrying variations of the address.
- The address checker rewrites the new address
- Compare the suggested format with your own and accept it only if it is clearly the same place.
- Post keeps arriving at the old address from an account marked done
- Check whether the organisation holds a second address, such as billing or shipping, and update that one too.
Common questions
Can an agent change my address on all my accounts?
One user reports that Instinct changed their address across a whole pile of accounts. The post does not name them or say how many, and this directory has not reproduced it. Some accounts will still need you.
How does it find which accounts have my old details?
Usually from your email: receipts, statements and notices show which organisations you have accounts with. Accounts that never email you need adding by hand.
Should an agent change the details my bank holds?
That is your call. Banks and official bodies often have their own process and may ask for proof of residence, so many people keep those changes for themselves.
Does this set up mail forwarding?
No. Forwarding is a separate service with its own sign-up. This page covers the details held on your accounts.
How do I know nothing was missed?
Watch what still arrives at the old place over the next few weeks, and add those senders to the list.
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